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Former hostage launches helpline
Terry Waite
Terry Waite supports the new trauma helpline in Aberdeen
Former hostage Terry Waite has officially launched the UK's only trauma victim helpline in Aberdeen.

A successful pilot scheme had already been operating for almost a year as a joint venture involving counsellors and Robert Gordon University.

The helpline will aid victims of sudden daily trauma, such as assaults, road, industrial and domestic accidents.

Mr Waite was taken captive and remained in captivity for 1,763 days, the first four years in solitary confinement.

The Sudden Trauma Information Service Helpline (STISH) operates under the aegis of the Aberdeen Counselling Information Service, a project of Mental Health Aberdeen.




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